HOAXES: The Midnight Penman Returns

Curiouser and curiouser, this book A History
of the Modern Age (Doubleday; $7.95), which will be published next
week. It is billed as the work of one Julian K. Prescott, a former U.S.
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs who suffered a nervous
breakdown in 1964 and died four years later, leaving his unfinished
manuscript to his old friend Professor Neal F. Morrison for
publication.

What a feast of previously unpublished material it containseverything
from an encounter between Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill in a
Kremlin steam bath ("a converted dungeon...